10.30.13

Lectio:  Lk 13.31-35                                                                                                       

Meditatio:”He [Jesus] said to them in reply, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered tn this way they were greater sinners than all the Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did’!” Lk 13.2-3

Oratio: O God, You sent Your only Son to call us to repent and He was very clear that is what we must do.

I remember Jesus compared those who do not repent will suffer in a fatal way just as the Galileans did whose very blood was mingled with blood of sacrifices made to gods; what a terrible fate for a Jew! What a terrible fate for us for it means whatever we thought of our worth, is good for nothing and we will suffer  eternal damnation. .

Grant that I may be ever mindful of Jesus’s call to repent and seek the grace to turn my life to the direction of the Lord’s Way and then live in accord with His truths; and then I will find a glorious way at the end of my days -eternal life with the Lord..
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I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "Galileans suffered ... greater sinners”; physical suffering is not an indication of immorality. Sin is what I chose to do that is contrary to God’s way - the Way of the Golden Rule. In prayer respond to the grace of respond to  Jesus’s call to repent; and do so, while there is yet time for He so much wants all of us to be with Him for all eternity.

Tomorrow's reading: Mt 5.1-12a